| Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. While now primarily a writer, Paul has worked as a programmer, consultant, database developer, and Web site developer. He started programming when he was a teenager in the mid-1970s and has worked with everything from mainframes to desktops to bar code scanners . He has programmed in many different languages, including Fortran, assembly language, C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, and, of course, Visual Basic for Applications. Paul has written more than forty books that have sold nearly three million copies worldwide. These books include Special Edition Using JavaScript , Excel 2003 Formulas and Functions , and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP . |
